What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Engineer (Backend/Data Infrastructure) position at Spark (YC W24)?
Our customers count on Spark to aggregate and organize the energy industry's data in real time and apply AI to it. In this founding role, you will work closely with our founders to build Spark’s data infrastructure, pipelines, and business logic from scratch. You will also be involved in customer interactions and support and help shape the product roadmap.
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Our stack at a glance :
- Data infrastructure : We index, crawl, scrape, and ingest thousands of websites daily. These pipelines use Typescript, Python, and OpenAI.
- LLMs : We use OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and a number of chunking, retrieval, and RAG libraries for extraction, summarization, and question-answering. This is used on public and user-uploaded data.
- Frontend : Typescript and React.js for our interactive web app.
- Infra : We run on AWS, Vercel, and Porter.
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